In a scene in Jeffrey Mathias’s 2014 video “John Wissemann: Stencils & Pencils & Working Harbors of Maine,” the artist visits Friendship Harbor with fellow painter Sam Cady who lives in the neighborhood. As they admire the configurations of sheds, docks, and boats, Cady notes that Friendship has made “a real point” of maintaining a working waterfront, with few fancy…

Many years ago, my family and I began to spend summers on Vinalhaven. Over the years, first we were summer people, then longer term visitors, and now fortunately homeowners; much…

Three young women pose nervously for the camera in our image this month. They are dressed for an outing and are holding parcels, maybe containing their lunch. Their chaperon, a…

This type of regional collaboration provides a vehicle for improving social and economic opportunity...

A group scientists and community members supported by the National Science Foundation are working to understand the role the sea mink played in Maine...

Among our many interesting island traditions is one that’s wonderfully functional. Before one of our favorite institutions, The Paper Store, closed, whenever an islander died, or someone with an island…

After three years of missing out on being together for the holidays, I asked our sons and their families if they would like to come home to Islesford for a…

Somebody recently told me that millennials weren’t eating as much packaged cereal as they used to because pouring milk into it and then cleaning up the bowl afterwards took too…

As I bustled down the school hallway between dropping students off at their elementary classroom and eating a quick lunch before recess duty, something unusual caught my eye. A sea…

The Herald’s flamboyant publisher, James Bennett, followed risky whims, sometimes succeeding wildly...